#406 : The TV Serial of Life

TDE-R #406~Share your Enlightenment Here! __________________________ Realization: The TV Serial of Life (Dedicated to aJuanster) Juen once remarked to Zeph,

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TDE-R#406~Share your Enlightenment
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__________________________Realization:

The TV Serial of Life

(Dedicated to
aJuanster)

Juen once remarked to Zeph, that it was ridiculous how characters in a TV
soap opera or drama serial (mini-series) kept bumping into each other. It seemed crazily coincidental how protangonist X's best friend
would be the brother of antagonist Y, who would be in forbidden love with X's
sister... In short, a whole bunch of complicated twists of "fate"
entwined to form an intriguing story that keep couch potatoes couch potatoes.

Zeph laughed and replied, "Hey! Of course the characters' lives are
interconnected! They wouldn't be a serial if they weren't!" Juen asked,
"What do you mean?" "Well... how can a serial be about say, the
love lives of X and Y when X and Y don't even know other, or are unconnected to
each other in any way, ironical or not? It would be 2 stories instead of one 1
interweaved one!" Juen chuckled, "Oh yeah!
Hahaha...!"

Likewise, our lives are like TV serials. There is LIVE
element of real story in our lives because we have LIVE interdependent
connections with others in our lives. Relationships are broken and reconciled,
friends become enemies and enemies befriend each other... It is just not that TV
serials are not life-like; the truth is vice versa- our lives are TV
serial-like. Just as nothing happens by pure chance in a serial- it being the
result of the efforts of the script-writer. Likewise, we are the script-writers
of the TV serial of our lives. But we are half-conscious script-writers and
"actors" because as long as we are not fully enlightened, we do not
know the plot that lies ahead due to the self-written karmic script of life we
in the past. We thus appear just as surprised, even at times as apalled, as the
characters in serials, when we realise we are more interconnected or
disconnected with people we like and dislike, than we expect.

But is there in reality such thing as "twists of
fate"? No- karma is always operating as it is, ironing itself out, flat-
never twisting or turning unreasonably... complex maneouvres maybe, but never
with senseless entanglements- all in good order. It is the ignorant mind that
chooses to believe one suffers from a twist of fate- as if one's destiny was
thwarted by any other being other than oneself. Whatever our
interconnections are, remember that they are karmic- you deserve it all. And
every connection you readily make today will interconnect back to you in the
future. Let us appreciate our human connections then, rather than to love or
hate them too much... just appreciate the TV serial of life, without being too
addicted to it- for a serial will end, though indefinite sequels are possible
through rebirth. This is a mega blockbuster long-running prime-time serial
called Samsara, directed by Karma, by you, for you, as always.

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